Palimphyes

Palimphyes is an extinct genus of prehistoric euzaphlegid bony fish related to the escolars and snake mackerels.[1] The various species lived as deepwater mesopelagic predators in the Tethys and Paratethys oceans, with fossils of ten species found in Paleocene to Oligocene strata of the Swiss Alps, the Carpathian and Caucasus Mountains, Iran, India, and Turkmenistan.

Palimphyes
Temporal range: Thanetian to Oligocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Subphylum:
Vertebrata
Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
Superclass:
Osteichthyes
Family:
Euzaphlegidae
Subfamily:
Dipterichthyidae
Genus:
Palimphyes

See also
  • Prehistoric fish
  • List of prehistoric bony fish

References
  1. Bannikov, ALEXANDRE F. "A new genus and species of putative euzaphlegid fish from the Eocene of Bolca in norther Italy (Periformes, Trichiuroidea)." Studi e Ricerche sui giacimenti Terziari di Bolca, XII Miscellanea Paleontologica 9 (2008): 99-107.


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